Free Federal Wireless Broadband For All Americans? Fuggedaboutit!

By Sam Gustin – The United States government is not going to be providing free WiFi Internet access to consumers anytime soon. That news may surprise anyone who read a startling Washington Poststory on Sunday.

The “free WiFi for all” story cuts to the heart of ongoing battles over access to the Internet, the “digital divide,” and federal policy decisions that could have major implications for the telecom, cable, and technology industries. But the story was wrong, as Ars Technica pointed out. more> http://tinyurl.com/ajvgukd